The Henry Colborn Trust
Funding education, sporting or recreational activities
The Henry Colborn Trust is a small fund entrusted to the Company in the 17th Century
The Henry Colborn Trust funds education, sporting or recreational activities that benefit children living full-time in Ashwell, Hertfordshire.
The Henry Colborn Trust’s charitable purposes allow it to:
- Provide special benefits which are not usually provided by the local education authority, for Ashwell Primary School
- Promote the education, including social and physical training, of children resident in the parish of Ashwell.
Following a policy review, the Trust’s policy is not to fund applications for the cost of obtaining private diagnoses.
We can only consider applications made through our online application form. To apply, please read the following information and complete the tick boxes below the expanding text.
If you are applying on behalf of a registered charity, you will not need to obtain a Unique Reference Number (URN) from us (see below).
If you are applying either on behalf of a group or organisation which is not a registered charity, or on behalf of an individual, you will need a Unique Reference Number before you can start completing the form.
To obtain a URN, please email a request here. Please ensure your email has the following:
- The subject bar should read: Henry Colborn Trust, request for URN
- In the email itself, please state in full the name of the individual or organisation on whose behalf the application is being made
- If it is a group or organisation, please include a link to the group or organisation’s website (if any).
- The Trust decides applications once a year, in late May. We notify the outcome to applicants usually on the last working day in May.
- You can submit an application at any time except for April and May.
- Unfortunately, the Trust cannot consider applications submitted in April or May. We would not be able to complete the checks we need to make before the trustees can decide the application in late May.
- The best time to submit an application is during January to March, because we will probably only need to ask you for financial information once. If you submit earlier than January, we may have to ask you twice: first, at the time you submit your application, and then again for an update in January – March in case your facts have changed.
Examples:
You apply in February. Your application is decided in late May and you learn the outcome at the end of May.
You apply in September. Your application is decided in late May the next year and you learn the outcome at the end of that May. We probably need to ask you twice for financial information.
You submit an application in April or May. Unfortunately, we cannot consider the application at all because April – May each year is our ‘closed’ period for applications.
To apply for funds from The Henry Colborn Trust, please first save or print a copy of the guidance on completing the form which you can access here: Guidance to online form.
The Henry Colborn Trust is a working name of Henry Colborn (or Colbron), a charity registered in England and Wales (no. 310961)
Before the pandemic, the Henry Colborn Trust trustees considered proposals for the future use of the Rolly's Lane netball courts. Please see here the outcome of those proposals.
Until further notice, the condition and security of the courts remain the legal responsibility of Hertfordshire County Council, under a lease from the trust.